Orientation Programme on Adolescent Health for Health-Care Providers

This training program has the following:

Core modules

1. Introduction
2. Meaning of adolescence and its implications for public health
3. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
4. Adolescent-friendly health services
5. Adolescent development *
6. Concluding

Optional modules

1. Sexually transmitted infections in adolescents
2. Care of adolescent pregnancy and childbirth
3. Unsafe abortion in adolescents
4. Pregnancy prevention in adolescents
5. Substance use in adolescents
6. Mental health of adolescents
7. Nutrition in adolescents
8. HIV/AIDS in adolescents
9. Chronic diseases in adolescents
10. Endemic diseases in adolescents
11. Injuries and violence in adolescents
12. Young people and injecting drug use

The materials consist of a handout for participants and of a facilitator’s guide for the overall course (course director guide) and for all the modules. It provides detailed guidance on how to run each module. In addition it contains tips for the trainers, lecturing aids such as overhead slides in electronic form with accompanying talking points and study materials.

Last modified: July 23, 2021

Language: English, French, Russian